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Beah: A Black Woman Speaks Out

Collected by Women News Network and 2 other people
Added May 15, 2008
In 1920, African American woman hero, Beah Richards, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi with a mother who was a seamstress and a father who was a Baptist minister. At one point she was called the most important Black women in communist America speaking out for justice at every opportunity. Film ...
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Girls Gone Missing

Collected by Women News Network and 2 other people
Added May 15, 2008
Sex Selection in South Asia has left India with too many men and not enough women. This is gender femicide. April 2008 UNFPA film. 6:15 min.
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Cambodia: CHILD SEX SLAVERY (1of2)

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 14, 2008
When Dalyn was only 12 years old when she was forced to work in a brothel in Phenom Penn. She was tricked and forced into prostitution. Locked in a cage with others underneath the brothel, she was starved, tortured and threatened until she agreed to service clients. 6:30 min. YouTube release Apri...
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United Nations Millennium Campaign - Goal 5- Maternal Health

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 04, 2008
An educated women knows what to do to protect herself and her baby during childbirth. The UN Millennium Campaign Goals have 189 countries signed up to eliminate poverty. Now they must keep this promise to save women's lives. Today one in 16 women in sub-saharan Africa dies in childbirth. We can c...
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Water Voices Series (3) - India women drought workers

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added April 23, 2008
During a three-year drought, women from the arid rural areas in the state of Gujarat, India were spending at least three hours every day fetching water from a steadily diminishing source. Now the women are managing village systems, and bringing water closer to home. A Halsey Street Ltd. film prod...
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Dr. Dorj Munkhuu hero of Mongolia

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 19, 2008
Dr. Dorj Munkhuu, a heroine among the Mongolian people, has changed the landscape today for Mongolian women. Mongolia today is facing a new world because of women who step forward. A UNFPA Feb 2008 release. 2:01 min.
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Turkish female lawyer's fight for free speech - 2008

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 19, 2008
A Turkish women attorney has been banned from work and threatened due to her stand on issues that have caused her to fight for human rights in Turkey. Turkish legislators are considering a proposal to soften a controversial law which severely restricts freedom of speech. Turkey has been under pre...
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Everywoman - The veil - 16 May 08 - Part 1

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 18, 2008
In Part Two of Everywoman TV special on the veil we meet an Egyptian girl who has made the decision not to cover up (with the veil). May 16, 2008. 10:53 min.
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Acid Attack - Sudan

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 18, 2008
20 yr. old Sanaa is from Sudan. She was forced into marriage to a man 28 yrs her senior. While in her forced marriage she was severely disfigured after acid was thrown at her face by her brother under her now ex-husband's misleading instruction. Today she constantly hides her terrible face from v...
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Women - US internment camps 1940s - Masumi Hayashi art memorial

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 13, 2008
When the US interned Japanese women and their familes during World War Two, many women felt betrayed by the country (US) they called home. This film/video shows the artistic work of Masumi Hayashi as she tells the story. 4:27 min. WV Broadcasting 2004 video / youtube release Dec. 20, 2006
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My Body My Weapon - Manipur, INDIA

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 10, 2008
Irom Sharmila is a young woman of Manipur, India who has been on a fast-to-death for nearly 7 years now. She has been demanding the removal of a brutal law from her land. Manipur is a north-east Indian state (bordering Myanmar), riven for decades by insurgency and armed separatist movements. The ...
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Ugandan Fistula Survivor: Federesi's Story

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 05, 2008
Learn from My Story: Women Confront Fistula in Rural Uganda... In August 2007, the ACQUIRE Project partnered with the Center for Digital Storytelling and St. Joseph's Hospital in Uganda to coordinate a workshop for Ugandan women who have experienced obstetric fistula. This story recounts the hard...
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Women Farming Nepal - IDRC Nepal

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 03, 2008
Nepal's rural survival depends on agriculture. Often men control the business of agriculture. Even though women are involved from the ground up in food production, they have not been given management power in the agri-field in Nepal. Forestry, wood gathering and sustainability are also important ...
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Salt Harvesters of Ghana

Collected by Women News Network
Added April 28, 2008
Stunning images of women working on a moon-like landscape frame the unrelenting cycle of work of the women of Ada who harvest salt with their bare hands. The natural forming salt lagoon in has provided income for the local women for over three hundred years. A sound track by Patty Stotter, tradit...
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Women's Power - Indigenous women - Matrilineal history

Collected by Women News Network
Added April 04, 2008
Matrilineal and matrilocal culture of women history. 5:41 min. Excerpt from Women's Power dvd by Max Dashu Suppressed Histories Archives: http://www.suppressedhistories.net New: Women's Power DVD http://www.suppressedhistories.net/womenspowerdvd.html
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